The Watsons

Following sold-out runs at both Chichester Festival Theatre and the Menier Chocolate Factory, Laura Wade’s The Watsons transfers to the West End in 2020.

Directed by Samuel West, The Watsons played to critical acclaim at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2018 and at the Menier in 2019.

“Laura Wade triumphs spinning Jane Austen into major theatrical gold” Variety

Directed by Samuel West, The Watsons played to critical acclaim at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2018, and completes its run at the Menier this Saturday, 16 November.

“Excellent. Jane Austen has never been quite so much fun.” The Times

Nineteen and new in town, Emma Watson’s been cut off by her wealthy aunt. She needs to marry, and fast, or be faced with a life of poverty and spinsterhood stuck in her humdrum family home.

Luckily, she has plenty of prospective suitors asking to dance, from dashing socialite Tom Musgrave to the stinking rich, socially awkward Lord Osborne. Which partner to pick?

So far, so familiar, but that’s when Jane Austen stopped writing. Two hundred years on, her forgotten heroine’s happy ending still hangs in the balance.

Picking up an unfinished novel, Olivier Award-winner Laura Wade’s ‘ingenious and triumphant’ (Evening Standard) new comedy pops the bonnet on Jane Austen’s worldand asks: what happens when a writer loses the plot and fictional characters take control of their tale?

Performance Times

Now taking bookings for performances up until Sat 26th September 2020.

Show times for each day are below.

Mon

2.30pm

Tue

2.30pm

Wed

7.30pm

Thu

7.30pm

Fri

7.30pm

Sat

7.30pm
7.30pm

Sun

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Harold Pinter Theatre Details

Bus routes: (Haymarket) 3, 6, 12, 13, 19, 23, 38, 88, 139; (Piccadilly Circus) 14, 22, 94

Night buses: (Haymarket) 6, 12, 23, 139, 88, N3, N13, N18, N19, N38, N97, N136, N550, N551; (Piccadilly Circus) 14, 94, N22

Nearest rail: Charing Cross

Tube lines: Bakerloo, Piccadilly

Nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus

Directions from Piccadilly Circus :

(3mins) Take Coventry Street up to Oxendon Road; the theatre is 100 metres along on the right.

Car park: Leicester Square, Whitcomb Street (1min)

In congestion zone?: Yes

Facilities at Harold Pinter Theatre

Air conditioned

Bar

Disabled toilets

Infrared hearing loop

Toilets

Wheelchair accessible

Harold Pinter Theatre Location

6 Panton Street, London, SW1Y 4DN

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